so i'm working on making a gamebook right now and before i progress further, i was wondering, is cursing at all allowed in games? my game is from the perspective of me or someone very similar to me, and i do have a bit of a pottymouth when i'm not trying to be professional, but i'd like to know if i should omit that. (i was going to file it under the simulation tag when it was uploaded, but i would be willing to file it under adult if i have to, although i'm not including any graphic sexual content so i don't know if that would be appropriate.)

Swear, you dirty sailor. Swear.

You probably should mention that in your game description regardless of how you want it categorized though.

profanity would fall into 'adult' category, as it's non-appropriate for minors. Disney films NEVER have profanity (though they and the parents, don't care about the HEAVY sexual-innuendo's in their films. Parents don't want their kids to hear profanity in a disney film, but they both don't care that disney is part of the hyper-sexualizing/slutification'ing * of their children, sighs).

As a game is either: 100% non-adult (any of the categories except "adult") or its "adult" category (regardless of how much and/or extreme the content is, be it low or high, few or many).

.* reference: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/cool/view/ (Merchants of Cool: the "mook/moron" and the "midrif/slut" part of the video)

alternative video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Scz-TwiH2Uo

"Teens * are like Africa (Robert McChesney Comm. Prof. at University of Illinois)" --- one of the most epic quotes of all time!

.* (HK edit: and now this includes the socialized degressive training of immaturity of even our 20-30 year olds too now)

If you're really worried about what rating to use just think of your game content the same way you would a movie.

For certain genres--say a crime drama, or something about war--it'd be almost impossible to write characters realistically without some fucking swearing. :)